RACIAL AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY: A SOCIOLOGICAL INTRODUCTION

Chapter 4 Quiz

(1) Between 1492 (Columbus’ first voyage) to 1945 (end of World War II), Europe dominated nearly every region of the non-European world. Sociologists call this domination the _______.

A Reformation

B decline of the West

C Golden Age

D rise of the West

(2) In the colonial binary system, the imposed European religion was _____, and the subordinated non-European institution was any other religion.

A Catholicism

B Christianity (either Catholicism or Protestantism)

C Baptist (either Southern or Northern)

D Protestantism

(3) What was the first stage (1400s-1500s) of European global colonization (out of four stages)?

A Development of empires

B Creation of overseas empires

C Second wave of empire-building, loss of empires

D Loss of empires, national independences

(4) _____: seeing a particular human group as the standard by which all other groups are measured

A ethnocentrism

B settlement

C civilization

D mestizaje

(5) ____: race mixture by interracial sex (aka miscegenation) between groups of mainly European versus mainly non-European descent

A ethnocentrism

B settlement

C civilization

D mestizaje

(6) What was the basic feature of colonial education?

A teaching colonial children of color to see the metropole (European mother country) as their source of identity: their cultural home, origin, and center

B mestizaje

C teaching colonial white children to see the colony (not the European mother country) as their source of identity: their cultural home, origin, and center

D settlement

(7) Decolonization in Africa and the Caribbean occurred between ____ and _____.

A 1901, 1960

B 1901, 1990

C 1951, 1960

D 1951, 1990

(8) Name the principal European ex-colonial powers in Africa:

A France and Algeria

B Britain and Australia

C Britain and France

D France and Australia

(9) _____: a political community (a national state like France, the U.S., or Mexico).

A polity

B hegemony

C reflexivity

D whitening

(10) The U.S., like many other former European colonies dominated by whites, inherited and developed this linkage between civilization and race: to be civilized was to be _____.

A white

B male

C wealthy

D educated